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Jack and Madelon Ferguson have sent me word that their son, John, was married Nov. 26, 1947, to Miss Miriam Endres Warren. John Jr. is a journalism major at the University of Tulsa and a member of the Public Relations staff there. Incidentally, Jack now boasts of having four grandchildren. He recently talked to Mrs. Dave Markham, who told him that they expect to leave any day now for their new post in El Salvador, where they expect to be for the next two years. Jack has just been elected to the Secretaryship of the Dartmouth Club of Eastern Oklahoma, and I prophesy if all the members of that organization will follow our hustling Jack's lead, that Club will be flourishing and heard from in a big way.
From the Jersey marshes comes a nice long letter from Sammy Sanborn, the eminent patent lawyer. Sammy has had his ups and downs so far as health is concerned, having suffered one heart attack in 1939 and another in 1943, but cheerfully adds: "the Lord was good to me and I'm now feeling tip-top." Until the war began, Sammy and Ellen spent their vacations at North Woodstock, N. H., but ever since have gone to Cragsmoor, N. Y., in the Sawangunk (pronounced. Songum) range, where, as Sammy says, the elevation is 2000 ft., the scenery delightful, and East Orange only 93 miles away.
George Simpson was elected treasurer of theMelrose Dartmouth Club recently. This yearduring Christmas vacation the Club initiated(something which many Clubs are alreadydoing) the gathering together of all the boysapplying for Dartmouth, and entertainingthem with dinner, movies of the College, andinformal speeches.
Dave Hitchcock wrote me a nice letter from enemy territory (New Haven) to confirm the swell vacation trip to the West last summer, where he hobnobbed with George Ingalls, and visited with Stu Hill and John Loomis. While on this trip, George took many pictures which were finished in the Eastman store in Omaha. The store evidently considered them outstanding because, with George's permission, they had them enlarged and put on display there. Hope George sends me one to publish in the MAGAZINE. Dave has a daughter Mary, graduating from Radcliffe this month. His son Dave Jr. is a sophomore at Dartmouth, where he is a member of Cabin and Trail, Tri-Kap, D.0.C., incidentally being one of those who helped fight the fire on Sunapee Mountain last fall. Dave reports that Dick Merrill was scheduled to speak at the Yale Chapel recently.
Harold Pinkham writes that after a bout with typhoid fever last summer which cost him three months inactivity, following a vacation to the middle West (his first vacation in five years), he now feels tip-top and is looking forward to the 1950 reunion. Harold is Postmaster in Milton, N. H.
In a newspaper clipping sent in by DaleBarker, I read where Harold Harlow's son Harold Jr. is at work in Athens, Greece, under the joint auspices of the Congregational Christian Service Committee and the American Board of Foreign Missions. Harold Jr., who studied at Dartmouth, Yale, and Boston University Graduate School of Social Work, is a teacher at Pierce College. His wife, daughter Linda, 4, and son Richard, 21,4 mos. old, whom he hadn't seen, have recently flown to join him there.
A short note arrived from Doc Rowell to say that he is up to his neck in work and hasn't had time to see any of the boys. He is in charge of the Sunnyside Restoration (the home of Washington Irving), a project sponsored by the Rockefellers, and is looking forward to a booming tourist trade this spring and summer. Also, a bunch of brochures, which I know I will get a great deal of pleasure reading. If anyone is interested, contact Doc.
A grand letter arrived from Buster Sawyer, once an eminent M.D. in Fall River, Mass., and now gaining further laurels in his profession as a country doctor in Brookfield, N. H. Buster's son is interning at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, having finished his medical schooling at Temple University after leaving Dartmouth. At present he is living with his wife (a Hitchcock graduate) and son in White River. Notice that Buster's a grandpop! Buster's daughter is in the
Class of 1949 at Smith College, where Dartmouth students carry on their extracurricular activities. Buster adds that he has recently been elected a representative and has attended his first session of the Legislature in Concord this January. With all hotels full, Buster would have been hard put for a bed, but Phil Blodgett proved to be a good Samaritan and came to his rescue. Understand that Johnny Kimball, now that the deer season is over, has hied away to St. Petersburg, Florida, for the winter.
Gabe Walker's son is attending the University of Virginia, where he manages to keep busy with extracurricular activities such as tennis, basketball, and traveling with the band. Gabe has the flying fever again, which he abandoned in 1927, has bought a small plane, an Ercoupe, and I have a standing offer to fly over Washington anytime I visit that city. His oldest son George already has a license, and Gabe says his youngest son Dick can hardly wait until he is sixteen to get one, also.
Bob Bigelow forwarded a letter to me from JiggsDonahue, now with the Joint Export-Import Agency in Germany. Jiggs has been ill, spending two weeks in a hospital at Frankfort and two weeks in a Paris hospital, but is now convalescing and back at work again, although he must return to Paris in the spring for further treatments. His comments about conditions in Paris are very interesting, plenty of food, clothing, etc., but prices have skyrocketed so high that people haven't the money to purchase them. No more are the cafes open at night (in fact the neon signs are dark), because people need all their money for necessities. After six years of suffering and privation, Jiggs feels he is in Heaven, with Army food to be had, and PX tobacco to smoke. He is also very sure that the Communists will never secure control of France in spite of Russian machinations.
The big event of this month was the annual dinner of the Boston Alumni Association at the Statler Hotel in Boston, Mass. Your Secretary drove into town from Worcester through a snowstorm, and had to drive home through the same storm afterwards. The dinner was well attended by Fifteeners, but undoubtedly the weather conditions kept many away. We listened attentively, to the usual excellent speech of President Dickey, bearing on all policies of the active College. Charlie Griffith at the head table brought the greetings of the Dartmouth Club of New York, of which he is president. The newly-formed Dartmouth Association Glee Club entertained us with songs. We tried to get them to sing Casey Jones' "Go Dartmouth," but a lack of sheet music prevented this treat. Incidentally we hope this will be straightened out so the New York Alumni can hear it sung on April 14. To make the evening more memorable, Casey is sending all the Fifteeners present a copy of his hit song. We were all sorry that our efficient Class Agent, Jack Mason, was unable to be with us because of a combination of pressing business and a cold. By the time this column is in print, Jack will have started his drive for another' Green Derby, so let's continue the Class unity we showed last year, and help push us over the top again. Those present at the dinner were: Barker, Bigelow, Bull, Crawford, Clough, Doe, Foster, Griffith, Huntress, Johnson, Jones, Lounsberry, Mac Andrews, Meader, Milmore, Norwood, Rice, Richardson, Sawyer, Shea, Sherman, Simpson, St. Clair, and Wing. Some thirty-three others to whom GeorgeSimpson sent cards, sent their regrets at not being able to be present.
Was very much surprised to receive a telephone call from Al English, who recently brought greetings from Ohio. Al was on a brief trip East to see his mother and brother before flying back to Columbus. Told me he recently had a chat with Bill Lang. Dick Merrill is still busy with his painting. Let's hear from some more of that Ohio delegation.
Secretary, 11 Paul Revere Rd., Westwood Hills, Worcester 5, Mass. Treasurer, Ames Bldg., 1 Court St., Boston 8, Mass. Class Agent, The Millville Mfg. Co., Millville, N. J.
